A quartet of SD40-2 with two C&NW units pulls up to the original Grand Island crossing with the BN. The C&NW units were in pool service with the UP that hauled coal from the Powder River basin.
Coal and steel don't go bad. This album features long, slow, heavy freight trains; drag freights, slop freights, dead freights, etc. Trains with lots of power, and lots of different cargo slogging along behind.